Populist Parties in Eastern and Western European Democracies - Einzelansicht

ABSTRACT

What faces does populism take in Eastern and Western European democracies? Based on selected countries, we will examine the manifestos, the electorate, and the party system positions of populist parties. At the beginning, we will focus on the question of what populism is (ideological positioning) and which different types can be theoretically distinguished from each other (especially left- and right-wing populism). Empirical analyses of populist manifestos (What are the core demands?), their voters (Who votes for populist parties?) and the position of populist parties in the respective party system (esp. populism as opposition or governing party) will be worked out in case studies based on research literature and publicly accessible databases. The goal of the seminar is to reveal commonalities and differences of populism in a comparative perspective and to deal with its challenges for pluralist democracy.

Coursework (Studienleistung): presentation of a case study on the manifesto, the voters, or the party system position of a selected populist party (about three pages), Examination (Prüfungsleistung): seminar paper (Klausur)

Selected Literature

Decker, Frank/Lewandowsky, Marcel (2012): Die rechtspopulistische Parteienfamilie, in: Benjamin Höhne und Uwe Jun (eds.): Parteienfamilien. Identitätsbestimmend oder nur noch Etikett?, Opladen, pp. 268-281.

Heinisch, Reinhard/Holtz-Bacha, Christina/Mazzoleni, Oscar (eds.) (2021): Political Populism: Handbook of Concepts, Questions and Strategies of Research, Baden-Baden.

Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira/Taggart, Paul/Espejo, Paulina Ochoa/Ostiguy, Pierre (eds.) (2017): The Oxford Handbook of Populism, Oxford.

Mudde, Cas (2007): Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe, Cambridge.

Oswald, Michael (ed.) (2022): The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, Cham.

Zulianello, Mattia (2020): Varieties of Populist Parties and Party Systems in Europe: From State-of-the-Art to the Application of a Novel Classification Scheme to 66 Parties in 33 Countries, in: Government and Opposition, 55/2, pp. 327-347.

Die Klausur findet am 11.07.2023, 12-14 Uhr, statt.
Die Nachschreibeklausur findet am 14.09.2023, 12-14 Uhr, statt.